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IJAIED Special Issue: Creating and Improving Adaptive Learning: Smart Authoring Tools and Processes

Deadline extended to April 1 Creating and Improving Adaptive Learning: Smart Authoring Tools and Processes Motivation and Scope Cyberlearning technologies increasingly seek to offer personalized learning experiences via adaptive systems that customize pedagogy, content, feedback, pace, and tone according to the just-in-time needs ...
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International Learning Sciences Student Association

The International Learning Sciences Student Association (ILSSA) is a formal committee of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) that aims to serve as an international community for all students of the learning sciences. ILSSA’s mission is to support ...
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LRDC Summer Undergraduate Research Institute – Apply by March 9

The Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) Summer Undergraduate Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh seeks summer undergraduate interns to promote broader participation in training in the .earning sciences. The 2020 program will run from June 1-July 31, 2020 ...
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Call for proposals to host future ISLS Annual Meetings

The International Society for the Learning Sciences (ISLS) invites proposals from organizations interested in hosting future ISLS Annual Meetings. These meetings will feature concurrent Learning Sciences and CSCL programs in a joint, annual event. Proposals to host the meeting in ...
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CIRCL Update: Register Now to be a Presenter in the STEM for All Video Showcase

Dear Colleague, We wanted to give you a quick heads up on several opportunities that have rapidly approaching deadlines. 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase. Do you have a federally funded project aimed at improving STEM or CS learning and teaching in ...
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NSF’s new CS for All solicitation – proposals due April 13, 2020

The new NSF CS for All solicitation focuses on both research and researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools. Proposals are due by April 13, 2020.
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Register by February 10 to present in the STEM for All Video Showcase

If you have an NSF or other federally funded project aimed at improving STEM or CS learning and teaching in formal or informal environments, we strongly encourage you to present your work in the 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase. ...
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NSF Program Director positions in CISE

The NSF division Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) seeks to fill two Program Director positions in computer science, one temporary rotation and one permanent: A
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Call for Panelists for National AI Research Institutes

NSF seeks volunteer reviewers for the interdisciplinary panels that will review proposals submitted to NSF’s upcoming National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes competition. Panels will likely meet between March-May. If you are interested, please complete this short survey by January 13, ...
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STEM for All Multiplex & Monthly Series

The new STEM for All Multiplex aggregates all videos submitted to video showcases and lets you to search and filter videos from all years. Create playlists based on your interests, favorites, or those from your institution, and share these playlists ...
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CIRCL Update: Cyberlearning 2019 – Apply by April 30 (deadline extended), Cyberlearning at TMS, Video Showcase May 13-20

Dear Colleague, We hope you can join us for the following events. Cyberlearning 2019. Apply to attend by April 30 (deadline extended). Join us October 3-4 in Alexandria, VA, to share your work, explore tensions that arise as research teams expand ...
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Call for Papers: Learning In and For Collective Social Action

Proposals are invited for papers for a special issue of the Journal of the Learning Sciences. Guest editors: Joe Curnow and A. Susan Jurow Scholars in the learning sciences are increasingly and more explicitly attending to questions about the political and ...
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STEM Teacher Leadership Network Beta Test

Participate in the STEM Teacher Leadership Network Beta Test! The STEM Teacher Leadership Network prototype was funded by the National Science Foundation for STEM Teacher Leaders (and those involved in STEM Teacher Leadership Programs). A beta test is being conducted ...
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ICEE 2019 – Submissions due May 20

2-6 December, 2019, Kenting, Taiwan (see the ICCE 2019 Website) Call for Main Conference Papers (Full, Short, and Poster) In response to emerging research diversity, the 27th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) 2019 will be a meta-conference, comprising of seven ...
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CIRCL Update: Ideas Lab deadline extended, S&D Workshop Call for Participants, Neuroscience & Learning Webinar, Video Showcase, & More

Dear Colleague, We wanted to give you a quick heads up on several opportunities that have rapidly approaching deadlines; see below for details on each opportunity: NSF Ideas Lab preliminary proposals – deadline extended to March 4 Synthesis & Design workshop – call ...
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Call for Participants: The Future of Embodied Design for Mathematical Imagination and Cognition Workshop

May 20-22, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, WI (USA). This 3-day workshop at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that will bring together a diverse collection of leading scholars in mathematical reasoning, teaching, and learning who are working on embodied ...
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ISLS Conference Travel Scholarship 2019

The goal of the ISLS conference travel scholarship is to support scientists in the field of the learning sciences who live and work in regions of the world that are not represented at our annual conferences (i.e., ICLS and CSCL) ...
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2019 STEM Video Showcase: Innovations in STEM Education

May 13-20, 2019 (online) Don’t miss a great opportunity to showcase your federally-funded STEM Education project and reach tens of thousands of people while producing a video for your project! Register to present at the 2019 STEM Video Showcase by February 19 ...
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Seeking Students and Postdocs for Boston College MA Program in Learning Engineering

Boston College’s Lynch School of Education is delighted to announce the start, in late August, 2019, of our new Masters Program in Learning Engineering (PDF); find out more at bc.edu/learningengineering. We hope you will pass this information on to undergraduates ...
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Robert F. Tinker AERA Scholarship

The Robert F. Tinker Scholarship is offered to support innovative graduate students or postdoctoral scholars working in the learning sciences and/or advanced technologies in learning to attend the American Educational Research Association annual meeting. Learn more and apply Application Deadline: December 31, ...
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News from NSF and the U.S. Government

NSF ECR Webinars in August

In these EHR Core Research (ECR) Proposal Preparation Outreach Webinars in August, the program will provide an overview of the funding opportunities in the latest ECR solicitation (NSF 19-508) and answer questions from participants. ECR is a great place ...
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NSF Seeks Science Education Administrator (Program Director)

NSF seeks qualified candidates for a Science Education Administrator (Program Director) position for the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Alexandria, VA. The incumbent will work across ...
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STEM Video Showcase – Award Winners

The STEM Video Showcase: Innovations in Education featured 242 3-minute videos from federally-funded projects in formal and informal settings. Check out the cyberlearning-related videos and 36 overall winners of Presenter, Facilitator, and Public Choice awards.
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NSF RFI on Future Topics for the NSF Convergence Accelerator

NSF seeks input on future NSF Convergence Accelerator tracks within the Big Ideas of Harnessing the Data Revolution and Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier, within other Big Ideas, or on other topics that may not relate directly to ...
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NSF Geoinformatics Solicitation – Due August 15

NSF Division of Earth Sciences invites proposals for the development of cyberinfrastructure for the Earth Sciences (Geoinformatics). The solicitation supports efforts to develop data resources, software tools, and computational infrastructure needed to facilitate studies of the structure, dynamics, and evolution ...
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STEM Video Showcase May 13-20

The STEM Video Showcase: Innovations in Education — an interactive, online event May 13-20 — features more than 200 short videos on innovations in STEM education in formal and informal settings. Join the discussion, share your ideas, and vote for ...
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CIRCL Update: Cyberlearning 2019 – Apply by April 30 (deadline extended), Cyberlearning at TMS, Video Showcase May 13-20

Dear Colleague, We hope you can join us for the following events. Cyberlearning 2019. Apply to attend by April 30 (deadline extended). Join us October 3-4 in Alexandria, VA, to share your work, explore tensions that arise as research teams expand ...
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NSF Convergence Accelerator

DCL: NSF Convergence Accelerator Pilot (NSF C-Accel) aims to accelerate use-inspired convergence research in areas of national importance, and initiate convergence team-building capacity around exploratory, potentially high-risk proposals in three convergence topics (tracks). This DCL offers many opportunities for ...
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NSF STEM+C – May 1 Deadline

NSF’s STEM+Computing (STEM+C) program focuses on research and development of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to the integration of computing within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning for preK-12 students in both formal and informal settings. STEM+C supports ...
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NSF Convergence Research – Due May 8

Growing Convergence Research (GCR) invite proposals for multi-disciplinary team research that crosses directorate or division boundaries and is currently not supported by NSF programs, initiatives and research-focused Big Ideas. See the solicitation. Proposals due May 8, 2019.
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